Coronavirus: checks on flights from Rome

(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 10 - Passengers arriving at Italian airports with a flight from Rome will be subject to health procedures to prevent the infection of the coronavirus, already in force for international flights. The measure was decided by the Civil Protection Operational Committee to solve a problem: those who arrive in Rome on an international flight and then continue to an Italian destination, remaining in fact in the transit area of ​​Fiumicino airport, are not subjected to checks. If someone, for example, arrives from Paris and continues with a flight to LameziaTerme, he remains in the transit area without leaving. And, therefore, it is not checked until it arrives in Calabria, where it appears to come from a flight from Rome and not from abroad. To resolve this problem, it was therefore decided to extend icontrolli to all flights arriving from Rome. No similar provision, however, has currently been arranged for all the other flights connecting the rest of the Italian cities.